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Fender Rumble Club

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lexiharringtonmusic said:
Thank you for all the help. I figured out that I *think* it's my cables. That's what I'm gonna tackle first and see if there's improvement.

What's freaking me out is when I play certain frets, particularly 5th fret on my low string, there's this booming scary like circuitry electricity sound coming from the back of my room.. I have noo idea what that means.
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I'm not sure what you mean with a 'booming scary like circuitry electricity sound' but I agree with Gravedigger Dav it probably has to do with room acoustics.
Those make some notes sound way louder than others because they have a frequency which causes the sound to resonate like crazy (and therefore amplify much more) and sound much louder. Happens to everyone everywhere.
 
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Big Hoss said:
It mutes when inline with the bass to the input. Was hoping that the effects loop would keep that behavior.
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Mine does not do that! Is there some special setting? Anyway yes, how it's plugged up will not effect it's operation. You may have to do some tweaks to your gain structure, but if you have achieved unity gain inline, you should still be very close going through the effects loop. The ZOOM B3 is a particularly clean unit with no distortion unless you want it. Some of the effects are very near studio quality. I especially like the "AIR" digital reverb. Many of various Chorus/Phaser/Flanger settings are also great. The tuner is extremely accurate and easy to use.
 
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Linnin said:
This can be a real Pandora's Box, but essentially what you want is your raw uneffected bass signal to be the same volume out of the amp whether or not any effects are used. Say you're crusin' along just fine clean, but now you want some chorus for some high chords or riff. When you kick the chorus in your overall volume is the same. You do not want to cut or boost volume when you kick in an effect. This is especially true of distortion of any kind. The concept of gain structure as a whole and unity gain as a goal isn't that difficult to grasp, but is much easier said than done. Trial & Error.
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Okay, got it. Just hadn't heard that label before. My Basspod has a Channel volume control that allows me to balance volumes between the various settings. I wont have to balance between the amp and effects because the basspod is always on. I don't even know if I can bypass it. I'll have to check that out.
And thanks again for your help.
 
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Linnin said:
Mine does not do that! Is there some special setting? Anyway yes, how it's plugged up will not effect it's operation. You may have to do some tweaks to your gain structure, but if you have achieved unity gain inline, you should still be very close going through the effects loop. The ZOOM B3 is a particularly clean unit with no distortion unless you want it. Some of the effects are very near studio quality. I especially like the "AIR" digital reverb. Many of various Chorus/Phaser/Flanger settings are also great. The tuner is extremely accurate and easy to use.
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Press and hold (2), not sure about the time, for me I guess 5 seconds or so, I know 1 to 2 seconds trips to straight tuner, but keep holding it and it will trip to tuner + mute.

I will try to snatch some video of the whole shebang and post it tonight so you can see / hear what I am talking about. It will likely be a thread of its own in the effects forum.
 
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Linnin said:
Another thing we could do collectively is to use the phrase "tone pool" as in here is a setting for the tone pool. That way you could search for the word pool and come up all the submitted tone settings. Separate tone setting threads have been started before and just fizzled out.
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I think the hot ticket would be a publicly-accessible Google Docs spreadsheet.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FFolDeXy4xrXStKtX67klEfjQlZXXQ9NVYMI4iypnls/edit?usp=sharing

Can you see this?
Can you edit it?
Recommendations?
 
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OK. It's on!

Fill up that TONE POOL spreadsheet!

I reserve the right to edit stuff that offends my delicate sensibilities.
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I can think of two other things that would be interesting:
  • A pedal sheet with pedal model and settings;
  • An instrument sheet with settings.
The amp spreadsheet gives just 1/3 of tonal possibilities, the other 2/3 being the pedal chain and the instrument knobs, switches, and strings.
This quickly gets too complicated...
 
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Ok... Gain vs volume...

Linnin you are very pro-volume first, then gain... But, isn't it dependant on the end sound you are looking for?

What I mean is, if you are looking for a very clean sound, then volume first makes sense, but if you are looking for more grit (for lack of a better word) then wouldn't it make sense to drive the gain harder?
Or is this more related to tube amps?
 
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  • Nice pest control.stories. similar techniques have been used against humans such as in waco and the little war in panama ect...

    I actually was thumping around some sub lows with my old ampeg micro cl about 2 years ago on my boat in the middle of the night and something large knocked my hull from below (I was docked in harbor). I turned it off at that point. We're gonna need a bigger boat!


    Big Hoss said:
    Had an interesting experience with my Rumble 500 combo last night...

    It would appear that some Racoons have managed to find a loose board in my attic siding, and have tried taking up residence in my attic.

    After spending a couple of hours scratching on the ceiling, putting a radio to loud talk radio, and stinking up the attic with bowls of vinegar, nothing was working. The fuzzy beasts were above my bedroom ticking off my wife and myself...

    Drag the Rumble stack in, power up, turn up, start doing slow scales. Basically hit the open E string, let it ring until the house shaking goes down a bit, then hit the E on the first fret, the ceiling fan, door knobs, paintings on the wall, everything is shaking like there is a freaking earthquake going on in the bedroom.

    By the time I got to the 12th fret, as the vibration was going down, I heard scrambling and banging on the other side of the house, looked out of the music room window, and sure enough, an adult raccoon and her 3 juviniles were seen making haste to get out of my attic before sundown...

    So yes boys and girls, a Rumble 500 combo CAN be used for pest control!
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